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{{Short description|Indian politician}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2021}}
{{Use Indian English|date=August 2021}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Ravi Sitaram Naik
| image =
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1946|9|18}}
| birth_place = [[Ponda, Goa|Ponda]], [[Goa]], [[Portuguese India]]
| residence = Goa
| Order =
| office = 7th [[Chief Minister of Goa]]
| term_start = 25 January 1991
| term_end = 18 May 1993
| constituency =
| term_start1 = 2 April 1994
| term_end1= 8 April 1994
| office2 = Member of the [[Goa Legislative Assembly]]
| term_start2 = 2017
| term_end2 =
| predecessor2 = [[Lavoo Mamledar]]
| successor2 =
| constituency2 = [[Ponda (Goa Assembly constituency)|Ponda]]
| termstart3 = 1999
| term_end3 = 2012
| predecessor3 = [[Verekar Shivdas Atmaram]]
| successor3 = [[Lavoo Mamledar]]
| constituency3 = [[Ponda (Goa Assembly constituency)|Ponda]]
| termstart4 = 1989
| term_end4 = 1994
| predecessor4 = [[Gaunkar Babusso Sanvlo]]
| successor4 = [[Shripad Naik]]
| constituency4 = [[Marcaim (Goa Assembly constituency)|Marcaim]]
| termstart5 = 1984
| term_end5 = 1989
| predecessor5 = [[Aguiar Jolido Souza]]
| successor5 = [[Verekar Shivdas Atmaram]]
| constituency5 = [[Ponda (Goa Assembly constituency)|Ponda]]
| office6 = [[Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha]]
|term_start6=1998
|term_end6=1999
|predecessor6=[[Ramakant Khalap]]
|successor6=[[Shripad Naik]]
| constituency6 = [[North Goa (Lok Sabha constituency)|North Goa]]
| children =
|religion =
| spouse =
| party =* [[Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party]] - till 1991<br />
* [[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
}}

'''Ravi S. Naik''' (born 18 September 1946) is a former [[chief minister]] and [[Bharatiya Janata Party]] politician in [[Goa]], India. He started his career on the [[Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party]].

==Early life==
He was born on 18 September 1946 in [[Ponda, Goa]]. His father is Sitaram Naik.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Ravi Sitaram Naik(Indian National Congress(INC)):Constituency- PONDA(NORTH GOA) - Affidavit Information of Candidate:|url=https://myneta.info/goa2017/candidate.php?candidate_id=98|access-date=2021-09-07|website=myneta.info}}</ref>

His biodata lists him as an "agriculturist, political and social worker", and his home is in the central Goa sub-district of [[Ponda, Goa|Ponda]]. His "favourite pastime and recreation" activities are listed as gardening, music, reading and watching TV, while his "special interest" is listed as social service.

Ravi Naik has been the lone legislator in Goa<ref name="auto">{{cite news| url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-03-06/goa/31127034_1_manohar-parrikar-mgp-ravi-naik | archive-url=https://archive.today/20130126124213/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-03-06/goa/31127034_1_manohar-parrikar-mgp-ravi-naik | url-status=dead | archive-date=2013-01-26 | work=[[The Times of India]] | title=Know your Neta}}</ref> who was a national volleyball player. He has been chief minister for just a six-day stint in 1994 (when he was controversially appointed by the then Governor). He plays badminton, and according to the Times of India<ref name="auto"/> he "began his career by owning a bar and restaurant in Ponda".

==Political role==

===Stint as Chief Minister===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Took office
! Left office
! Party
! Days in office
|-
| 25 January 1991
| 18 May 1993
| [[Indian National Congress]] Indian National Congress, after breaking away from Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party
| 844 days
|-
| 2 April 1994
| 8 April 1994
| [[Indian National Congress]] INC, in power for few days following decision of [[Governor]] [[Bhanu Prakash Singh]], subsequently the latter was removed from office by [[New Delhi]].
| 6 days [total 850 days]
|-
|}

Naik contested his first elections in 1980 on a [[Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party]] ticket, but lost. After quitting that party in 1991, he became the state's chief minister then and again in 1994.

He has been a member of the [[Goa Legislative Assembly]] since 1984, but not continuously. In 1990, he was part of the team which topped the then ruling [[Indian National Congress|Congress]] party, leading to intercine political instability that dominated much of that decade and more.

Besides chairing committees in the Goa Assembly, he has also been a cabinet minister at the regional (Goa) level holding—at different times—the portfolios of Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Services, Information & Publicity, Home, Town & Country Planning, Personnel, General Administration, Vigilance, Finance, PWD, Housing, Science and Technology and Printing & Stationary.

Naik lost the 2012 elections to [[Lavoo Mamledar]] of the [[Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party]].

According to the official website of the Goa Assembly, he won the 2007 elections on an Indian National Congress ticket from the [[Ponda, Goa|Ponda]] constituency, where a total of 24557 votes were polled. Naik received 9972 votes, and won by a margin of 1656 votes. He also won the 2002 Assembly elections (Ponda, 1320 votes margin), and the 1989 elections (Madkai, 1651 votes margin).

Ravi Naik was elected again to the Goa Assembly in the state election of 2017, this time with a margin of 3000 votes. He is a member of five member Congress Legislative Party (CLP) of Goa and remained with the party during the two-thirds split in the CLP in 2019 where 10 MLAs defected to the ruling BJP.

==National Parliament, Goa opposition, Deputy Chief Minister==

In 1998, after a loss in local politics, he was elected to the national Indian parliament. In 1999, he took over as Leader of the Goa Opposition, and between 2000 and 2002 he was Deputy Chief Minister in the then [[Bharatiya Janata Party]] government in Goa. "I have not been in elections from yesterday or today. I've been in politics since 1967... and we were against the merger (of Goa into Maharashtra)," Naik said (in Konkani) in the Prudent TV interview below.

His son Roy Naik has also been involved in local politics.

==Controversies==

In an interview with Prudent TV (see link below), he defended his handling of the police in Goa, which had come in for sharp criticism during his tenure at their helm as Home Minister.

His ascent to power for his first tenure in 1990-91 was questioned in a Supreme Court of India case (see link below) over his assumption to power with [[Indian National Congress]] support, apparently because of the disqualification he was facing.

The then opposition BJP made allegations against Naik and his son [[Roy Naik]] of involvement with the coastal illegal narcotic trade.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://mafiatoday.com/tag/ravi-naik/ |title=Archived copy |access-date=2012-12-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111013001355/http://mafiatoday.com/tag/ravi-naik/ |archive-date=2011-10-13 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Opposition politicians and a section of the media<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBPQ8P5C6gI|title=As Goa police take it easy, Model Lucky Farmhouse is back in Sweden after spending a month in Mumbai|last=navhindmultimedia|date=29 May 2010|via=YouTube|access-date=2018-11-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160527060808/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBPQ8P5C6gI|archive-date=2016-05-27|url-status=live}}</ref> highlighted charges by Swedish model [[Lucky Farmhouse]] which suggested the Naik or his kin were someway connected with the narcotics controversy.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.digitalgoa.com/ca_disp.php?id=1279 |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2012-12-19 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20130121104321/http://www.digitalgoa.com/ca_disp.php?id=1279 |archivedate=2013-01-21}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[List of Bhandaris]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*[http://www.goavidhansabha.gov.in/member.php?id=4&flag=MLA&aid=2 Goa Legislative Assembly official website, page of Ravi S. Naik]
*[http://indiankanoon.org/doc/554446/ Ravi S. Naik vs Union Of India on 9 February 1994 -- Supreme Court of India]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070211110948/http://digitalgoa.com/eg_disp.php?typ=eg&cid=73 Ravi S. Naik, biodata]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFIFFni1Ifk Ravi S. Naik, election interview 2012 with goasamachardotcom, in Hindi]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dV8-KdaPXMg Prudent TV interview with Ravi S. Naik, in Konkani]

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